- waiting for the best day of their lives to begin…
The football season officially started on Friday March 12th when Reads United hit Padiham. Padiham, until then a sleepy town near Burnley in Lancashire, had never known such fuss since Owen Coyle announced he was to become manager of Bolton.
As you can see, primary schools turned out in force to see the legends who are Reads United, thanks to the organizational skills of Allyson Richmond and Alison Turner, two of Lancashire’s finest. Sitting amazingly still without breaking a thing for almost two hours were: Hapton Primary, Padiham Primary, Padiham Green Primary, St Leonard’s Primary and St John’s RC Primary.
First of all Tom Palmer dazzled the audience with his world famous Reading Game and I made them cry by reading a passage from ‘What’s Ukrainian for Football?’ The experience ended with the unique penalty shoot-out game won, naturally, by a girl!
- Tom Palmer presents the awesome solid gold trophy to the penalty shoot-out winner
- The Alisons. Allyson Richmond (left) Alison of Padiham Library (middle) and Alison Turner (right)
hi helena i hope you enjoye reading all the letters from padiham green ! i loved the day when you and tom came ! my friend, leia , was the one who came up to the front and you were questiong her !
love from clelia
xxx
p.s thankyou fr your autograph ! xx
Hope your teacher received my letter of thanks, Clelia